Hesston

Alumnus to lead college

Howard Keim, vice president of academics and student development at Tabor College, has been named president of Hesston College, a two-year college of the Mennonite Church USA.

Keim, 52, will begin working at Hesston at the start of 2005. He will take over for interim president Peter Wiebe after the academic year ends in May.

Keim is a 1972 graduate of Hesston College and taught there from 1987 to 1996. He has a doctorate in communication studies from Kansas University and a master’s degree in interpersonal and public communication from Central Michigan University.

Topeka

Former copy clerk tapped as publisher

Mark Nusbaum, who began his newspaper career as a copy clerk for the Topeka Capital-Journal while a high school senior, has been named publisher of the newspaper.

His appointment was announced Tuesday by Morris Communications of Augusta, Ga.

Nusbaum, 49, has been publisher of the Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal for the past five years.

Ulysses

Children, 7 and 10, die in traffic wreck

Two Johnson City children were killed in a traffic accident in southwestern Kansas, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office said.

Collin Ray Becker, 10, and Kylie Jo Becker, 7, died Sunday night after the pickup truck they were in was hit broadside by a tractor-trailer, said Sheriff Lance Babcock. The truck had failed to stop at a stop sign.